Moreover, if someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and indeed it would be that the truth is outside of Christ, then I would rather stay with Christ than with the truth.

Money

Money is minted freedom.

Wife

A smart wife and a jealous wife are two different things.

Women

A woman will deceive the very all-seeing eye.

A life

Without the rudiments of the positive and beautiful, a person cannot go out into life from childhood; without the rudiments of the positive and beautiful, a generation cannot be allowed to travel.

Life goes breathless without an aim.

Remember my testament: never invent either plot or intrigue. Take what life itself gives. Life is much richer than all our inventions! No imagination can invent for you what the most ordinary, ordinary life sometimes gives you, respect life!

It may be that the whole goal on earth, towards which humanity is striving, consists only in the continuity of the process of achieving, in other words, life itself ...

One must love life more than the meaning of life.

Evil

Justify, do not punish, but call evil evil.

Knowledge

Knowledge does not regenerate a person: it only changes him, but changes him not into one universal, official form, but according to the nature of this person.

True

If they prove to me that the truth is outside of Christ, and Christ is outside of the truth, then I would rather stay with Christ than with the truth.

Love

Love is so omnipotent that it regenerates us ourselves.

In a truly loving heart, either jealousy kills love, or love kills jealousy.

The joy of love is great, but the suffering is so great that it is better not to love at all.

Peace

Beauty will save the world.

peoples

The measure of a people is not what it is, but what it considers beautiful and true.

Writers

The greatest skill of a writer is to be able to cross out. Who knows how and who is able to cross out his own, he will go far.

A writer whose works have not been successful easily becomes a bilious critic: so a weak and tasteless wine can become an excellent vinegar.

Truth

The real truth is always implausible. To make the truth more plausible, you must certainly mix lies with it. People have always done this.

Russia

The Russian people, as it were, enjoy their suffering.

Is it possible that even here they will not allow and will not allow the Russian organism to develop nationally, by its organic strength, but certainly impersonally, servilely imitating Europe? But what to do with the Russian organism then? Do these gentlemen understand what an organism is? Separation, "split" from their country leads to hatred, these people hate Russia, so to speak, naturally, physically: for the climate, for the fields, for the forests, for the order, for the liberation of the peasant, for Russian history, in a word, for everything, hate for everything.

The highest and most characteristic of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it.

Laugh

With laughter, some person gives himself away completely, and you suddenly recognize all his ins and outs.

Happiness

Happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.

Human

It may be that the whole goal on earth, towards which humanity is striving, consists only in the continuity of the process of achieving, in other words, life itself.

Humor

The arousal of compassion for the ridiculed and priceless beauty is the secret of humor.

Humor is the wit of deep feeling.

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Dostoevsky became a writer who penetrated the darkest depths of the Russian soul. He was nicknamed the real "psychologist of the pen", the researcher of the human heart for the fact that he empathized with all his heroes. Because the feelings they experienced were familiar to him firsthand.

We collected 25 wise quotes Fedor Mikhailovich, which give food for thought.

1. One must love life more than the meaning of life.
2. No one makes the first move because everyone thinks it's not mutual.
3. In everything there is a line beyond which it is dangerous to cross; for once crossed, it is impossible to turn back.
4. Happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.
5. The Russian people, as it were, enjoy their suffering.
6. To stop reading books means to stop thinking.
7. Freedom is not in not restraining oneself, but in being in control of oneself.
8. There is no happiness in comfort, happiness is bought by suffering.
9. In a truly loving heart, either jealousy kills love, or love kills jealousy.
10. It takes very little to destroy a person: one has only to convince him that the business he is engaged in is of no use to anyone.
11. My friend, remember that silence is good, safe and beautiful.
12. A writer whose works have not been successful easily becomes a bilious critic: so a weak and tasteless wine can become an excellent vinegar.
13. He is a smart person, but in order to act smartly, one mind is not enough.
14. If you set off towards your goal and stop along the way to throw stones at every dog ​​that barks at you, you will never reach your goal.
15. I want to talk about everything with at least one person, as with myself.
16. It's amazing what a single ray of sunshine can do to a person's soul!
17. Here you need to speak eye to eye ... so that the soul is read on the face, so that the heart is expressed in the sounds of the word. One word spoken with conviction, with complete sincerity and without hesitation, face to face, means much more than dozens of sheets of scribbled paper.
18. Life goes breathless without an aim.
19. The soul is healed next to the children.
20. Whoever wants to be useful, even with his hands tied, can do a lot of good.
21. Beauty will save the world.
22. In fact, people sometimes express themselves about the “brutal” cruelty of man, but this is terribly unfair and offensive to animals: a beast can never be as cruel as a person, so artistically, so artistically cruel.
23. Big ones do not know that a child, even in the most difficult task, can give extremely important advice.
24. Do not litter your memory with insults, otherwise there may simply not be room for wonderful moments.
25. A person who can hug is a good person.

F. M. Dostoevsky - Almsgiving is far from a noble occupation. Moreover, both for the one who asks for it, and for the one who gives it, since it contributes to an increase in the scale of begging.

Each person should strive for his ideal and wish for the best, otherwise, nothing good awaits him.

The possibility of using corporal punishment, which appears in some people, is a powerful means of destroying humanity and inevitably leads to moral decay. This is a bloody ulcer on the body of society, destroying all attempts at citizenship in the bud. – Dostoevsky

most characteristic feature of our people is a hypertrophied sense of justice.

In order to morally destroy a person, you need to convince him of the futility and uselessness of what he does.

Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Each of us is responsible for everything and for everyone and before everyone.”

Atheism often manifests itself as a result of receiving higher education and personal development, therefore, must be incomprehensible to the common people.

The value of high ideals and ideas lies in the constant search for opportunities to achieve them.

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People would understand that there is no happiness in inaction, that a thought that does not work will go out, that one cannot love one’s neighbor without sacrificing one’s labor to him, that it is vile to live on a gift, and that happiness does not lie in happiness, but only in achieving it ...

People, people - the most important thing. People are more valuable than money.

Fantasy is a natural force in a person... If you don't give it satisfaction, you will either kill it, or vice versa - you will let it develop excessively (which is harmful).

Russia is a game of nature, not of the mind.

After all, there was a man of the smartest and most gifted, a man, so to speak, even of science, although, by the way, in science ... well, in a word, he did not do much in science, and, it seems, nothing at all. But with people of science in Russia, this happens all the time.

And invariably still continues: they found a case and squeal with delight. To squeal and lie with delight is the very first thing we do; you look - in two years and we disperse apart, hanging our noses.

Only by labor and struggle is achieved originality and self-esteem.

Wine brutes and beasts a person, hardens him and distracts him from bright thoughts, dulls him.

The joy of love is great, but the suffering is so great that it is better not to love at all.

Falling in love does not mean loving: you can fall in love and hate.

Art never left a person, always met his needs and his ideal, always helped him in finding this ideal - it was born with a person, developed alongside his historical life.

To be surprised at nothing is, of course, a sign of stupidity, not intelligence.

Only those who have no wit speak the truth.

When I see around me how people, not knowing what to do with their free time, are looking for the most miserable occupations and entertainments, I look for a book and say inwardly: this one is enough for a lifetime.

Honest enemies always have more than dishonest ones.

There is nothing harder than straightforwardness and nothing easier than flattery.

The real truth is always implausible ... To make the truth more believable, you must certainly mix lies with it. People have always done this.

In a truly loving heart, either jealousy kills love, or love kills jealousy.

There is nothing so beautiful that there is not even more beautiful, and there is nothing so bad that there is not even worse.

Mystical ideas love persecution, they are created by it.

In abstract love for humanity, you almost always love yourself alone.

No, he who loves does not reason - you know how they love! (and his voice trembled, and he whispered passionately): if you love pure and love her purity in a woman and suddenly you are convinced that she is a lost woman, that she is depraved - you will love her debauchery in her, this disgusting disgusting to you, you will love in it ... that's what love is! ..

You can comprehend and feel both correctly and at once, but you cannot become a man at once, but you must stand out as a person.

Only that war is useful, which is undertaken for the idea, for the highest and great principle, and not for material interest, not for greedy capture ...

No amount of progress is worth a child's tear.

I read strangely, and reading has a strange effect on me. I read something that I have long re-read, and as if I strain myself with new forces, I delve into everything, clearly understand, and I myself extract the ability to create.

Sarcasm is the last trick of people who are bashful and chaste at heart, who are rudely and obsessively climb into the soul.

He who desires the truth is already terribly strong.

Wealth, coarseness of pleasures breed laziness, and laziness breeds slaves.

The self-sacrifice of oneself for the benefit of all is ... a sign of the highest development of personality ...

He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies comes to such a point that he does not distinguish any truth either in himself or around him, and, therefore, enters into disrespect both for himself and for others.

There are things in the recollections of every person that he reveals not to everyone, but only to his friends.

Compassion is the highest form of human existence.

Whoever wants to be useful, even with his hands tied, can do a lot of good.

Women are ours great hope, perhaps, will serve all of Russia at the most fateful moment.

Fathers and teachers, I think: "What is hell?"

There is nothing in the world more difficult than straightforwardness and nothing easier than flattery.

Wine bestializes and bestializes a person, hardens him and distracts him from bright thoughts, dulls him.

Whoever wants to see the living God, let him look not in the empty firmament of his own mind, but in human love.

The main thing in a person is not the mind, but what controls it: character, heart, good feelings, advanced ideas.

In most cases, people, even villains, are much more naive and simple-minded than we generally conclude about them.

The whole second half of human life is usually made up of nothing but habits accumulated in the first half.

A person does not live all his life, but composes himself, composes himself.

The more a person is able to respond to the historical and universal, the wider his nature, the richer his life and the more capable such a person is of progress and development.

When you fail, everything seems stupid!

I do not want and cannot believe that evil is the normal state of people.

Religion is only a formula of morality.

I reason like this: “Suffering that it is no longer possible to love.”

You need to be a really great person to be able to resist even against common sense.

If there is no God, then what kind of captain am I after that?

Conscience is the action of God in man

Art will be true to man only when it does not hamper his freedom of development.

Contact with nature is the very last word of all progress, science, reason, common sense, taste and excellent manners.

Is it possible to love everyone, all people ... Of course not, and even unnaturally. In abstract love for humanity one almost always loves oneself.

The whole world is not worth a single tear from a child.)

You can't love what you don't know!

No idea how to donate own life defending his brothers and his fatherland ..

Humanity is only a habit, a fruit of civilization. She may disappear completely.

Those who are easily inclined to lose respect for others, first of all, do not respect themselves.

What is talent? Talent is the ability to say or express well where mediocrity says and expresses it badly.

Money is minted freedom

Every woman has her own zest, but in order to find it, you do not need to crumble the whole pie.

The cheerfulness of a person is an outstanding feature of a person.

And invariably still continues: they found a case and squeal with delight. To squeal and lie with delight is the very first thing we do; You look, two years later, and we disperse apart, hanging our noses.

Almsgiving corrupts both the giver and the receiver, and moreover, it does not achieve its goal, because it only increases begging.

Just to live, live and live! No matter how you live - just live! What a truth! Lord, what a truth! A scoundrel is a man!.. And a scoundrel is the one who calls him a scoundrel for this.

Whoever wants to be useful, even with his hands literally tied, can do an abyss of good.

That's what the mind is to achieve what you want.

The description of a flower with love for nature contains much more civic feelings than the denunciation of bribery, because here there is contact with nature, with love for nature.

Honor disappears - the formula of honor remains, which is tantamount to the death of honor.

A fool who confesses that he is a fool is no longer a fool.

You didn't eat the idea, but the idea ate you.

Only by assimilating the original material, that is, the native language, to the best possible perfection, will we be able to master the foreign language to the highest possible perfection, but not before.

The highest and most characteristic feature of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it.

That is, even so: the more decent a person he is, the more he has them.

The most serious problems of modern man stem from the fact that he has lost the sense of meaningful cooperation with God in His purpose for mankind.

Truth without love is a lie.

Strength does not need cursing.

No matter how crude flattery, at least half of it certainly seems to be true.

There is no happiness in comfort, happiness is bought by suffering.

If you set off towards your goal and stop along the way to throw stones at every dog ​​that barks at you, you will never reach your goal.

A person who was not a child will be a bad citizen.

General principles are only in the minds, but in life there are only special cases.

Humanity cannot live without generous ideas.

But, finally, there are some that even a person is afraid to reveal to himself, and every decent person has quite a lot of such things.

I can't imagine a situation where there was never anything to do.

The mind is not the main thing, but that which directs it...

Beauty is harmony; it's a source of peace...

Man, in addition to happiness, just as exactly and completely in the same amount, needs misfortune!

If you are heading towards the goal and stop along the way to throw stones at every dog ​​barking at you, then you will never reach the goal [F.M. Dostoevsky]

Love is so omnipotent that it regenerates us ourselves.

Remember my testament: never invent either plot or intrigue. Take what life itself gives. Life is much richer than all our inventions! No imagination can invent for you what the most ordinary, ordinary life sometimes gives you, respect life!

But what am I to do if I know for sure that the basis of all human virtues is the deepest egoism. And the more virtuous the deed, the more selfish. Love yourself - that's one rule that I recognize. Life is a business deal...

The measure of a people is not what it is, but what it considers beautiful and true.

Learn and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest.

There is no idea, no fact that cannot be vulgarized and presented in a ridiculous way.

Egoists are capricious and cowardly in the face of duty: they have an eternal cowardly aversion to bind themselves to some kind of duty.

There are also those that he will not reveal to his friends, but only to himself, and even then in secret.

To act smart, one mind is not enough.

Man is the whole world, if only the basic impulse in him were noble.

Freedom is not in not restraining oneself, but in being in control of oneself.

He who does not love nature does not love man, he is not a citizen.

The owner of the Russian land is only one Russian. So it was and always will be.

Being only then begins to be when non-being threatens it.

Life goes breathless without an aim.

To love each other, you need to fight with yourself.

Talent needs sympathy, it needs to be understood.

The foolish pave the way for the wise to follow.

Only then is the feeling purified when it comes into contact with the highest beauty, with the beauty of the ideal.

The smartest of all, in my opinion, is the one who at least once a month calls himself a fool - an ability now unheard of!

For a limited ordinary person, for example, there is nothing easier than to imagine oneself as an extraordinary and original person and enjoy it without any hesitation.

Here you need to speak eye to eye ... so that the soul is read on the face, so that the heart is expressed in the sounds of the word. One word spoken with conviction, with complete sincerity and without hesitation, face to face, means much more than dozens of sheets of scribbled paper.

Good thoughts are preferred to a brilliant style. The syllable is, so to speak, outer clothing; thought is the body hidden under the clothes.

Truth is more poetic than anything in the world...

Beauty is inherent in everything healthy.

Whoever desires to see the living God, let him seek him not in the empty firmament of his own mind, but in human love.

Humor is the wit of deep feeling.

Man is a mystery. It must be unraveled, and if you will unravel it all your life, then do not say that you have wasted time; I am engaged in this secret because I want to be a man.

An atheist cannot be Russian, an atheist immediately ceases to be Russian.

It is a bad sign when one ceases to understand irony, allegory, or joke.

Without ideals there can never be any good reality.

Beauty will save the world.

It's amazing what a single ray of sunshine can do to a person's soul!

Man is a creature that gets used to everything, and I think this is the best definition of man.

Man does not know his nature.

Money is minted freedom.

That is the hallmark of true art, that it is always up-to-date, vital and useful.

Happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.

If somehow it turned out ... that Christ is outside the truth and the truth is outside of Christ, then I would prefer to stay with Christ outside the truth ...

Cursed be these interests of civilization, and even civilization itself, if it is necessary to flay people's skin to preserve it.

If you want to examine a person and know his soul, then look not at how he is silent, or how he speaks, or how he cries, or how he is excited by the noblest ideas, but look at him better when he laughs. A person laughing well means a good person.

For suffering. People like to feel like holy martyrs, hostages of passions. Love is the most complex emotion, but it is finite, like everything in this world. And there is nothing sacred in it, as well as in those who believe and wait for it.

Each person is responsible to all people for all people and for everything.

The fantastic is the essence of reality.

Why praise love?

Quotes and Aphorisms / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (October 30 (November 11), 1821, Moscow, Russian Empire - January 28 (February 9), 1881, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) is one of the most significant Russian writers and thinkers. Father, Mikhail Andreevich, worked in a hospital for the poor. Mother, Maria Feodorovna (nee Nechaeva), came from a merchant family. There is a long tradition in Russia that philosophy was truly represented only in the literary works of our writers - Lermontov, Gogol, Chekhov, Tolstoy and, of course, Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky’s philosophy cannot be reduced only to Orthodox reasoning about God, “a child’s tear”, reasoning “everything is allowed”, etc. As O. M. Nogovitsyn showed in his work, Dostoevsky is the most prominent representative of “ontological”, “reflexive” poetics, which unlike traditional, descriptive poetics, it leaves the character in a certain sense free in his relationship with the text that describes him (that is, the world for him), which is manifested in the fact that he is aware of his relationship with him and acts on the basis of it. Hence all the paradox, inconsistency and inconsistency of Dostoevsky's characters. If in traditional poetics the character always remains in the power of the author, always captured by the events happening to him (captured by the text), that is, he remains wholly descriptive, wholly included in the text, wholly understandable, subordinate to causes and effects, the movement of the narrative, then in ontological poetics we are for the first time we come across a character who tries to resist the textual elements, his subordination to the text, trying to “rewrite” it. With this approach, writing is not a description of a character in diverse situations and positions in the world, but empathy with his tragedy - his willful unwillingness to accept the text (the world), in his inescapable redundancy in relation to him, potential infinity. For the first time, M. M. Bakhtin drew attention to such a special attitude of Dostoevsky to his characters.

Quotes and aphorisms

Meanwhile, a fantasy sometimes entered my head: well, what if there were not three million Jews in Russia, but Russians; and there would be 80 million Jews, well, what would the Russians turn into from them and how would they treat them? Would they let them equal their rights? Would they be allowed to pray among them freely? Wouldn't they turn you into slaves? Worse than that: would they not have completely torn off the skin! Wouldn't they have been beaten to the ground, to the point of final extermination, as they did with foreign nationalities in the old days, in their ancient history? No, sir, I assure you that there is no prejudiced hatred of the Jew among the Russian people, but there is, perhaps, dislike for him, especially locally, and perhaps even very strong. Oh, it’s impossible without this, it exists, but it doesn’t happen at all from the fact that he is a Jew, not from tribal, not from some kind of religious hatred, but it happens from other reasons for which it is no longer the indigenous people who are to blame, but themselves Jew.

An atheist cannot be Russian, an atheist immediately ceases to be Russian.

Poverty is not a vice.

Humanity cannot live without generous ideas.

Without children it would be impossible to love humanity so much.

Without ideals, that is, without any definite wishes for the best, no good reality can ever come about.

Wealth, coarseness of pleasures breed laziness, and laziness breeds slaves.

After all, there was a man of the smartest and most gifted, a man, so to speak, even of science, although, by the way, in science ... well, in a word, he did not do much in science, and, it seems, nothing at all. But with people of science in Russia, this happens all the time.

Being exists only when non-being threatens it, being only then begins to be when non-being threatens it.

To gather in America, but be afraid of the rain ?!

In a truly loving heart, either jealousy kills love, or love kills jealousy. The exact opposite happens with passion.

In abstract love for humanity one almost always loves oneself.

That is the hallmark of true art, that it is always up-to-date, vitally useful.

A generous heart can love out of pity….

The cheerfulness of a person is an outstanding feature of a person.

Wine brutes and beasts a person, hardens him and distracts him from bright thoughts, dulls him.

To fall in love does not mean to love ... You can fall in love and hate.

The arousal of compassion for the ridiculed and priceless beauty is the secret of humor.

The magic of entertainment should help, not hinder.

The question is not whether there are casts or not, but whether they exist at all.

Time is the relation of being to non-being.

The whole second half of human life is usually made up of nothing but habits accumulated in the first half.

All this foreign country is just a fantasy. And all of us abroad are just a fantasy.

The highest and most characteristic feature of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it.

There is only one highest idea on earth, and it is precisely the idea of ​​the immortality of the human soul, for all the other "higher" ideas of life that a person can be alive follow from it alone.

The main thing in a person is not the mind, but what controls it: character, heart, good feelings, advanced ideas.

The main thing - do not lie to yourself.

Humanity is only a habit, a fruit of civilization. She may disappear completely.

Cursed be these interests of civilization, and even civilization itself, if it is necessary to flay people's skin to preserve it.

Money is minted freedom.

For a real Russian, Europe and the lot of the entire great Aryan tribe are just as dear as Russia itself, like the lot of their native land.

My friend, it is impossible to love people as they are. And yet, it should. And so do them good by squeaking your feelings, holding your nose and closing your eyes.

A fool who confesses that he is a fool is no longer a fool.

It is a bad sign when one ceases to understand irony, allegory, or joke.

If anyone destroys Russia, it will not be communists, not anarchists, but damned liberals.

If you take everything alien so to heart and if you sympathize with everything so strongly, then right, there is reason to be the most unhappy person.

If you are heading towards the goal and stop along the way to throw stones at every dog ​​that barks at you, you will never reach the goal.

If you want to conquer the whole world, conquer yourself.

There are moments when people love crime.

There are three kinds of scoundrels in the world: naive scoundrels, that is, those who are convinced that their meanness is the highest nobility, scoundrels who are ashamed of their own meanness with the indispensable intention to finish it all the same, and, finally, simply scoundrels, purebred scoundrels.

There are three forces, the only three forces on earth that can forever conquer and captivate the conscience of people, these weak rebels, for their happiness - these forces: miracle, mystery and authority. You rejected both, and the other, and the third, and you yourself set an example for this. Or have you forgotten that peace and even death is more precious to a person than free choice in the knowledge of good and evil? But only he who deceives their conscience seizes the freedom of people. You longed for the free love of man - with a free heart a person should henceforth decide for himself what is good and what is evil, having only Your image in front of him as a guide - but did You not think that he would reject and dispute even Your image and Your truth, if he will be oppressed by such a terrible burden as freedom of choice?

Women are our great hope, perhaps they will serve all of Russia at the most fateful moment.

Life goes breathless without an aim.

Knowledge does not regenerate a person: it only changes him, but changes him not into one universal, official form, but according to the nature of this person.

And why are you so firmly, so solemnly convinced that prosperity alone is beneficial to a person? After all, maybe he loves suffering just as much?.. A person loves to create and pave roads. But why does he also passionately love destruction and chaos? Tell me this!.. Meanwhile, I am sure that a person will never give up real suffering, that is, destruction and chaos.

The idea of ​​immortality is life itself, living life, its final formula and the main source of truth and the right consciousness for humanity.

It is more advantageous to have someone else among your enemies than among your friends.

Art is such a need for a person as to eat and drink. The need for beauty and creativity, embodying it, is inseparable from man, and without it, man, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.

Honor disappears - the formula of honor remains, which is tantamount to the death of honor.

Unfortunately, the truth is almost always not witty.

Each person is responsible to all people for all people and for everything.

No matter how crude flattery, at least half of it certainly seems to be true.

How good life is when you do something good and true.

A scoundrel-man gets used to everything!

Beauty will save the world.

Those who are easily inclined to lose respect for others, first of all, do not respect themselves.

He who does not love nature does not love man, he is not a citizen.

Whoever conquers pain and fear will become God himself.

Whoever wants to be useful, even with his hands literally tied, can do an abyss of good.

Only rascals lie.

Only by labor and struggle is achieved originality and self-esteem.

Only by assimilating the original material, that is, the native language, to the best possible perfection, will we be able to master the foreign language to the highest possible perfection, but not before.

Love is inconceivable without self-sacrifice.

Love is so omnipotent that it regenerates us ourselves.

People, people - the most important thing. People are more valuable than money.

The measure of a people is not what it is, but what it considers beautiful and true, for which it sighs.

Almsgiving corrupts both the giver and the taker, and moreover, it does not reach its goal, because it only increases begging.

Mystical ideas love persecution, they are created by it.

Many people are honest because they are fools.

It may be that the whole goal on earth, towards which humanity is striving, consists only in the continuity of the process of achieving, in other words, life itself.

We should not exalt ourselves above children, we are worse than them. And if we teach them something to make them better, then they make us better by our contact with them.

That's what the mind is to achieve what you want.

You have to be a really great person to be able to resist even against common sense.

One must love life more than the meaning of life.

The real truth is always implausible... To make the truth more believable, one must by all means mix lies with it. People have always done this.

You didn't eat the idea, but the idea ate you.

Not strong the best, but honest. Honor and dignity are the strongest.

You can't love what you don't know!

You will pass the world by falsehood, but you will not return back.

Unhappiness is a contagious disease. The unfortunate and the poor need to stay away from each other so as not to become more infected.

There is no higher idea than how to sacrifice your own life, defending your brothers and your fatherland...

There is nothing in the world more difficult than straightforwardness and nothing easier than flattery.

There is no happiness in inaction.

There is no happiness in comfort, happiness is bought by suffering.

There is no idea, no fact that cannot be vulgarized and presented in a ridiculous way.

Is it possible that even here they will not allow and will not allow the Russian organism to develop nationally, by its organic strength, but certainly impersonally, servilely imitating Europe? But what to do with the Russian organism then? Do these gentlemen understand what an organism is? Separation, "split" from their country leads to hatred, these people hate Russia, so to speak, naturally, physically: for the climate, for the fields, for the forests, for the order, for the liberation of the peasant, for Russian history, in a word, for everything, hate for everything.

To be surprised at nothing is, of course, a sign of stupidity, not intelligence.

But what am I to do if I know for sure that the basis of all human virtues is the deepest egoism. And the more virtuous the deed, the more selfishness there is. Love yourself - that's one rule that I recognize. Life is a business deal...

You need to be a truly great person to be able to resist even against common sense.

For a limited ordinary person, for example, there is nothing easier than to imagine oneself as an extraordinary and original person and enjoy it without any hesitation.

He was kind to those to whom he did kindness, and especially to those to whom he did kindness.

The description of a flower with love for nature contains much more civic feelings than the denunciation of bribe-takers, because here there is contact with nature, with love for nature.

Justify, do not punish, but call evil evil.

The main idea should always be unattainably higher than the possibility of its implementation.

A writer whose works have not been successful easily becomes a bilious critic: so a weak and tasteless wine can become an excellent vinegar.

Suspecting evil before good is an unfortunate trait characteristic of a dry heart.

Praise is always chaste.

When you fail, everything seems stupid!

Break through the heart. Here is a profound reasoning: for what is "piercing the heart"? - Instill morality, the thirst for morality.

The one who gave birth is not yet the father, but the father is - the one who gave birth and deserved it.

Russia is a game of nature, not of the mind.

To the Russian, Europe is as precious as Russia; every stone in it is sweet and dear ... Oh, these old foreign stones are dear to Russians, these miracles of the old God's world, these fragments of holy miracles; and even that is dearer to us than to them!

The most serious problems of modern man stem from the fact that he has lost the sense of meaningful cooperation with God in His purpose for mankind.

The most downtrodden, the last person is also a person and is called my brother.

Freedom is not in not restraining oneself, but in being in control of oneself.

Strength does not need cursing.

Compassion is the highest form of human existence.

The old always looks better.

It took some of our young ladies to cut their hair, put on blue glasses and call themselves nihilists, to immediately be surprised that, having put on glasses, they inapplicably began to have their own "convictions".

Suffering and pain are always indispensable for a wide consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great people... must feel great sadness in the world.

The Russian people, as it were, enjoy their suffering.

Happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.

That is why a great moral thought is strong, that is why it unites people into the strongest union, that it is measured not by immediate benefit, but strives them into the future, towards eternal goals, towards joy ...

Whoever desires to see the living God, let him seek him not in the empty firmament of his own mind, but in human love.

A woman, for example, sometimes has a need to feel unhappy, offended, even if there were no offenses or misfortunes.

We Russians have two Homelands - our Russia and Europe.

A smart wife and a jealous wife are two different things.

Learn and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest.

Fantasy is a natural force in a person... Without giving it satisfaction, you will either kill it, or, conversely, you will let it develop, precisely excessively (which is harmful)...

The fantastic is the essence of reality.

A person laughing well means a good person.

Man is the whole world, if only the basic impulse in him were noble.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be guessed. I do this mystery because I want to be human.

A person in shame usually becomes angry and inclined towards cynicism.

A person does not live all his life, but composes himself, composes himself.

Man is a creature that gets used to everything, and I think this is the best definition of man.

A person lives most at a time when he is looking for something.

In addition to happiness, a person just as exactly and absolutely needs misfortune to the same extent!

The more we are national, the more we will be Europeans (all people).

How will you unite people to achieve your civic goals, if you do not have a foundation in the original great moral idea?

An honest and sensitive person is frank, and a business person listens and eats, and then eats.

What appears to the mind as a disgrace, then to the heart is entirely beauty.

To love in simplicity, one must know how to show love.

To act smart, one mind is not enough.

Egoists are capricious and cowardly in the face of duty: they have an eternal cowardly aversion to bind themselves to some kind of duty.

Humor is the wit of deep feeling.

I am strongly convinced that not only a lot of consciousness, but even any consciousness is a disease.

I do not want and cannot believe that evil is the normal state of people.

I am guilty before him, therefore, I must take revenge on him.

I can't imagine a situation where there was never anything to do.

Wise and inspiring quotes by Fedor Mikhailovich that will give you food for thought

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is a real researcher of the human soul, he was nicknamed the "psychologist of the pen" because he empathized with all his heroes. He is a writer who managed to penetrate into the darkest depths of the human soul. Its influence on the spiritual development of mankind is difficult to underestimate, as well as on the literature of the whole world.

We have selected 30 outstanding quotes from the great thinker that give food for thought:

Compassion is the main and, perhaps, the only law of the existence of all mankind.

Freedom is not in not restraining oneself, but in being in control of oneself.

In everything there is a line beyond which it is dangerous to cross; for once crossed, it is impossible to turn back.

Happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.

One must love life more than the meaning of life.

The Russian people, as it were, enjoy their suffering.

Life goes breathless without an aim.

There is no happiness in comfort, happiness is bought by suffering.

Beauty will save the world.

No one makes the first move because everyone thinks it's not mutual.

A writer whose works have not been successful easily becomes a bilious critic: so a weak and tasteless wine can become an excellent vinegar.

He is a smart person, but in order to act smartly, one mind is not enough.

If you set off towards your goal and stop along the way to throw stones at every dog ​​that barks at you, you will never reach your goal.

Truth without love is a lie.

Seek love and accumulate love in your hearts. Love is so omnipotent that it regenerates us ourselves.

In a truly loving heart, either jealousy kills love, or love kills jealousy.

It takes very little to destroy a person: one has only to convince him that the business he is engaged in is of no use to anyone.

A person who can hug is a good person.

It's amazing what a single ray of sunshine can do to a person's soul!

Here you need to speak eye to eye ... so that the soul is read on the face, so that the heart is expressed in the sounds of the word. One word spoken with conviction, with complete sincerity and without hesitation, face to face, means much more than dozens of sheets of scribbled paper.

The soul is healed next to the children.

Whoever wants to be useful, even with his hands tied, can do a lot of good.

In fact, people sometimes express themselves about the “brutal” cruelty of man, but this is terribly unfair and offensive to animals: a beast can never be as cruel as a person, so artistically, so artistically cruel.

My friend, remember that silence is good, safe and beautiful.

The main thing - do not lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies comes to such a point that he does not distinguish any truth either in himself or around him, and, therefore, enters into disrespect both for himself and for others. Having no respect for anyone, he ceases to love, and in order, having no love, to occupy himself and entertain himself, he indulges in passions and coarse sweets and comes completely to bestiality in his vices, and all from continuous lies to people and to himself.